Nanci Griffith, a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter who kept one foot in folk and the other in country and was blessed with a soaring voice equally at home in both genres, died on Friday. She was 68.

Nanci Griffith, Singer Who Blended Folk and Country, Dies at 68, New York Times

A formative experience came when, as a teenager, she saw a performance by the melancholy Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt; she particularly identified with his song “Tecumseh Valley,” about a doomed young woman named Caroline, and it became a staple of her songbook.

Nanci Griffith, Singer Who Blended Folk and Country, Dies at 68, New York Times

Ms. Griffith sometimes affected a folkie casualness toward mainstream success. She told Rolling Stone in 1993 that she didn’t mind that Ms. Mattea had the hit version of “Love at the Five and Dime”: “It feels great that Kathy has to sing that for the rest of her life and I don’t.”

Nanci Griffith, Singer Who Blended Folk and Country, Dies at 68, New York Times

I’ve gotten lost this morning in the voice of an angel… RIP Nanci…